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Father Jose Benedito
Machado de Moraes, is from Brazil. He
was born in Taubaté
S.P. on April 18, 1955. He is the eldest of
the eight children of Tereza and João
Machado de Moraes and he has three brothers
and four sisters. His parents, who this year
will celebrate the 50th anniversary of
their wedding, adopted also four Japanese
girls.
After elementary and high
school, which he finished in Taubaté, he
went through one year military service. In
1974 he entered the SCJ Novitiate. After
this, in 1975, he was send for two year
social studies and then for another two
years he was teaching in the seminary. On
January 15, 1983 he was ordained as a
priest. From 1983 - 90, he was assigned as a
principal, in one of the schools run by SCJs,
and after that he went to a mission area in
Matto Grosso, where he had been working
until 1995. Even though his desire to come
to the Philippines was born much earlier,
due to lack of personnel he had to wait for
it for some years more.
In the beginning of 1995 he
went to USA to study English, after which in
December of the same year, he came in the
Philippines. During these eight years of
service Fr. Bene was assigned in several
places, mostly in the pastoral field. Even
though he likes them all, the most
challenging he found, was Dimataling.
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